Tech Law Advisor Daily Issues [2005-03-31]

* Classified Deep Links: John Battelle pointed to a new site for searching classifieds ... Oodle ... whose business model is to aggregate classified ads from various sources and serve them on their own pages with a side of google ads, according to Steve Outing.

* PageRank Games: Andy/Waxy noticed that wordpress is "quietly hosting at least 168,000 articles on their website in an attempt to game google adwords; an alert Google is now removing the results; Jonas Luster offers his take on what's going on.

* Yahoo! CC Search: Yahoo! launched a creative commons search (previously discussed here) to make it easier to find cc licensed content and meda; the only problem, as Phil Ringnalda sees it, is that "Yahoo! assumes anyone linking to a license is licensing something under it, and is licensing the broadest possible URL" and Shelley at Burningbird believes this is going to cause confusion as to what is, or is not, CC licensed.

* SCO using Groklaw's Docs

* Blawg Review: Denise Howell and Dennis Kennedy recommend two recently published articles on the blawgosphere:

- Spanning the “Blawgsphere” Web coming to forefront for lawyers, scholars of law By Ben Wickert
- Do You Blog? By Sarah Kellogg

- Brian C. Kalt on The Perfect Crime

when others spot the issues, I just report 'em

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